7.6/10117 votesLoading...#1 - Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/2019
Dakota meets the team in Tennessee to investigate the dark corridors of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. Chelsea has a confrontation with an entity inside James Earl Ray's cell. Tanner is threatened. Dakota's fear experiment takes a turn.
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8.0/1065 votesLoading...#2 - Old Bourbon Distillery
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/2020
The team heads to Kentucky to explore one of America's oldest bourbon distilleries. Dakota has a theory that quick and violent deaths cause some of the most intense hauntings, and he believes this sprawling house of horrors is just the place to test it.
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8.1/1061 votesLoading...#3 - Ohio State Reformatory
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 8/14/2021
All bets are off when Tanner picks one of America’s most depraved prisons to investigate – the Ohio State Reformatory, also known for its role in The Shawshank Redemption. He unveils a fear experiment so diabolical that the team is forced to decide whether to part ways or to continue on this road trip from hell together.
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8.2/1095 votesLoading...#4 - Old South Pittsburg Hospital
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/2/2019
The team pushes itself to the edge of sanity as they explore a notoriously haunted hospital in Tennessee. Dakota and Chelsea's sibling bond is tested when she is confronted by an aggressive entity with a grudge against women on the third floor.
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8.2/1063 votesLoading...#5 - Cambria County Jail
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/27/2020
Convinced total isolation and disorientation is the only way to push fear to its absolute limits.
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#6 - Sheboygan County Asylum
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 6/3/2020
Dakota brings the road trip to its most chilling overnight yet, inside a shuttered Wisconsin asylum.
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- 8.2/1067 votesLoading...
#7 - Missouri State Penitentiary
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 7/31/2021
Dakota blindsides the team when he decides to amp up the fear at a notorious prison. The ghost of a child kidnapper tries to communicate with Chelsea.
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8.2/1060 votesLoading...#8 - Greene County Almshouse
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 8/21/2021
Fed up with Tanner’s and Dakota’s experiments, Chelsea picks a revenge location unlike any other. The dark, untapped energy of this Pennsylvania poorhouse is overwhelming, and it forces the team to make a stunning decision to save their sanity.
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8.3/1081 votesLoading...#9 - Eloise Psychiatric Hospital
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/23/2019
Dakota, Chelsea and Tanner investigate one of the most-haunted locations in Michigan — Eloise Psychiatric Hospital. The team begins to lose its grip on reality as it is subjected to unexplained screams, slamming doors and rampant poltergeist activity.
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8.3/1072 votesLoading...#10 - Fairfield County Infirmary
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/21/2019
The team's terrifying road trip takes them to a house of horrors in Lancaster, Ohio. When Dakota tasks each member to explore the property all alone, Alex encounters something so evil it wouldn’t be believed if not caught on video.
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8.3/1071 votesLoading...#11 - Pennhurst State School
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/28/2019
The team faces their biggest paranormal challenge yet when they roll up to an abandoned asylum in Spring City, Pa.; hissing, violent entities within the asylum leave them wondering if they'll ever return home from their terrifying road trip.
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8.4/1074 votesLoading...#12 - Statler Hotel
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/7/2019
Dakota's team is pushed to their limits when they check into a historic hotel in Buffalo, NY. Disembodied voices and shadows are everywhere, but the haunted elevators prove most terrifying when communications fail and they each find themselves alone.
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- 8.4/1066 votesLoading...
#13 - Old Montana Prison
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 5/13/2020
The team investigates a former Montana Prison haunted by dark entities known for choking, shaking and possessing visitors, one team member must overcome his fear of violent spirits to survive the night behind the walls of the vile place.
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- 8.4/1064 votesLoading...
#14 - Randolph County Infirmary
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/2020
The team returns to Indiana to explore an abandoned facility that has haunted Tanner’s nightmares for the past five years. He has only now mustered up the courage to confront who -- or what -- terrorized him during their first investigation.
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8.4/1062 votesLoading...#15 - Fort Knox
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 8/7/2021
The team is left with less-than-warm feelings for Dakota when he hatches a chilling plan to communicate with the dead at an abandoned fort in Prospect, Maine. Things get even more heated when a ghostly caretaker threatens to throw them all out into the cold.
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8.5/1079 votesLoading...#16 - Madison Seminary
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/30/2019
Dark forces conspire against the team as they investigate the Madison Seminary, one of the most-haunted locations in Ohio. Terrifying voices, shadow figures and physical contact with a demonic entity leaves them stunned and shaken to the core.
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8.5/1075 votesLoading...#17 - West Virginia State Penitentiary
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/14/2019
The team heads to Moundsville, West Virginia, to investigate what was once one of the top ten most-violent prisons in America. Dakota fears he may have to leave some part of his soul behind after he is targeted in a horrific physical attack.
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- 8.5/1071 votesLoading...
#18 - Nopeming Sanatorium
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/29/2020
Dakota, Chelsea and Tanner head home to face the horror of their childhood nightmares, Minnesota's most-notorious sanatorium.
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- 8.5/1064 votesLoading...
#19 - Hill View Manor
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/20/2020
The team heads to Pennsylvania to investigate a former home for the destitute and elderly, determined to conquer the terror inside, but things go horribly wrong during a dire paranormal-induced emergency.
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- 8.5/1055 votesLoading...
#20 - Old Idaho Prison
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/2020
After many nights of torment by the paranormal, Alex finally gets his chance to pick a haunted location for the team to investigate. And he is ready to get even. He has planned the most terrifying experiment for Dakota yet at an infamous Idaho prison.
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- 8.5/1057 votesLoading...
#21 - Twin Bridges Orphanage
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/2021
Twin Bridges Orphanage, located in Twin Bridges, Montana, is an abandoned orphanage with a tragic and horrific history. The utter sadness and devastation of the orphanage’s children permeates every corner of the building with a deep, dark energy. Dakota finds himself communicating with someone – or something – that may not be what it seems.
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- 8.5/1055 votesLoading...
#22 - Loftus Hall
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/18/2021
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8.6/1086 votesLoading...#23 - St. Albans Sanatorium
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/16/2019
The team reveals a terrifying twist when they revisit St. Albans Sanatorium in Radford, Virginia, a location so awful that Chelsea quit last time and vowed she would never return. Can the trio conquer St. Albans before it conquers them again?
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- 8.6/1067 votesLoading...
#24 - Yorktown Memorial Hospital
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 5/6/2020
The team investigates a Texas hospital with a gruesome history, including a brutal double homicide. Once under the direction of Catholic nuns, the abandoned building’s chapel may house a demonic entity with its sights set on Dakota!
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- 8.6/1070 votesLoading...
#25 - Saratoga County Homestead
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/2020
Dakota leads Chelsea, Tanner and Alex to a decaying sanitarium where some patient corpses were unclaimed due to a flu pandemic. Screams and darting shadows play mind games with the team as they struggle to pin the activity on the living or the dead.
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The Worst Episodes of Destination Fear
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You saw him on Ghost Adventures, now, Dakota Laden takes his sister and best friend on a cross-country road trip to visit the most haunted...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary" is the worst rated episode of "Destination Fear". It scored 7.6/10 based on 117 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/26/2019. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Old Bourbon Distillery".